Climate / sustainability
Investors funding climate tech, clean energy, sustainability, and green transition businesses.
What this thesis means
Climate and sustainability investors underwrite companies reducing emissions, improving resource efficiency, or enabling the energy transition, software, hardware, and services. In India this includes clean energy, climate adaptation, circular economy, EV-adjacent infrastructure, and industrial efficiency.
These funds balance impact narrative with commercial reality: path to procurement, project finance needs, policy sensitivity, and whether the business can scale without perpetual grants. Hardware-heavy climate startups should expect longer diligence than pure SaaS.
Show the tonnes or rupees of efficiency you create, who the buyer is, and the milestone plan from pilot to repeatable deployment.
Who it fits
- Climate tech, clean energy, and sustainability founders
- Teams selling measurable efficiency or transition outcomes
- Hardware or hybrid companies with clear deployment milestones
What to prepare
- Impact metric tied to revenue (not only ESG storytelling)
- Buyer and procurement path
- Capital plan matched to pilots vs scale
Funds with this thesis
100Unicorns
Be the 'Y Combinator of India', provide initial capital plus committed follow-on to idea-stage startups, supporting them across their first three funding rounds before connecting them to large VCs for growth capital.
$250K – $3M2048 Ventures
2048 Ventures backs early-stage founders building transformative companies across AI, DeepTech, Climate, SaaS, and Consumer, with a long-horizon view on where the world is headed by 2048.
$500K – $2M8X Ventures
DeepTech-focused VC backing startups with strong scientific and research foundations that can fundamentally transform industries and economies; invests and enables, leveraging Middle East and Europe relationships to help portfolio companies expand globally and raise larger follow-on rounds.
$241K – $602K